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Impact-Based Corporate Training Design

LSA Global

Corporate Training Impact Why would any organization invest in professional development unless it believed that their training investment would pay off for their people and the business? And yet far too many businesses invest in corporate training without meaningful or agreed-upon success metrics.

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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. I typically am not a fan of values exercises with executives because what they come up with is often what they think makes them sound better but doesn't reflect their true values.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If your company offers internal finance training, take advantage of it. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. .” ” Focus on key metrics. That metric is often expressed in the form of a ratio.

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Make Civility the Norm on Your Team

Harvard Business

In the Irvine, California office of law firm Bryan Cave, managing partner Stuart Price and I led employees through an exercise to define collective norms. You also have to train employees to understand and respect them. Some leading-edge companies are already offering formal civility training. We address incivility.

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Making Time to Really Listen to Your Patients

Harvard Business

In their medical training , physicians often are taught to maintain a clinical distance and an even temperament. The physician-sherpa should be a partner on the journey, not simply a medical operative, extracting formulaic rules and implements from a toolbox. We disagree. Unhurried medical care may be elusive, but it is practical.

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How AI Will Change the Way We Make Decisions

Harvard Business

In many cases, especially in the near term, humans will be required to exercise this sort of judgment. One important technique in AI is reinforcement learning whereby a computer is trained to take actions that maximize a certain reward function. And it is not the same as putting a human in the loop to help train the AI.).